Originally Posted by
stoki
However long it shouldn't matter, 10 years is sufficient to realize how this works and not gripe about it when it happens to you. Because everyone wins some then later loses some in this industry.
And if anybody has been in this 25 years, then they only have themselves to blame for their current situation with the regionals, as 25 years should have been more then enough time to make a move out of the regionals elsewhere.
It is easy to sit outside of somebody's life and cast judgement, but things are not always as they seem. If you found yourself with 18 days off a month making 100k a year and kids at home, you might, also, be remiss to move on to uncertainty. We have a training captain who was hired at United twice. The first time was when he had about 10 years in at ASA. Before he left his class was cancelled and his friends who had gone before him got furloughed. Then he got hired again, and September 11th happened before he left, and again, his friends who went before him were furloughed. Now he has about 20+ years or so of seniority and a bunch of kids at home. If he takes a job with a major now, his income gets cut in half. What would you do? Not so easy anymore.